🛹 TBSN #36 — Happy International Families Day
Welcome to another new edition of The Bright Student Newsletter! It’s packed with resources, tips, and opportunities to become a better student, as always.
This edition:
⌛ Happy International Families Day
🛠️ Tools recommendation: Notion
📘 Book recommendation: The Last Lecture
🎬 Movie recommendation: Good Will Hunting
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⌛ Happy International Families Day
International Families Day is a day to celebrate the love and support of your family.
Families come in all shapes and sizes, and you can celebrate them no matter what form they take. Whether you have one parent or two, whether you are adopted or not, whether your parents are the same gender as you—there are many ways to be a family!
You can celebrate International Families Day by giving your family a gift, taking them out to dinner, or just spending some quality time together.
🛠️ Tools recommendation: Notion
Notion is a great tool for students who want to learn how to use software for music composition.
It's free and easy to use, with a clean interface that makes it easy to see what you're doing.
Users can create and save their own instruments, so they can be sure that their work will always sound the same way when they need it to.
The best part about Notion is its ability to let users collaborate with other people on projects—you can even share your whole project folder.
📘 Book recommendation: The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture is a book written by Randy Pausch, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006. The book is made up of his reflections on life and lessons learned from his experience as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Pausch uses the lecture he delivered to his students on September 18th, 2007, as a starting point for his reflections on life and death. In this lecture, Pausch talked about how he wanted to spend his time on earth, which included spending more time with his wife and children and working on reducing world hunger.
The book offers readers insights into what it means to be human, but also reminds us that we are all connected through our shared experiences.
🎬 Movie recommendation: Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting is a drama about a young man who works as a janitor at MIT, secretly solves complex math problems, and is plagued by his abusive past. When his therapist helps him realize how important it is to share his gifts with the world, Will decides to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematics while also helping other people with their own problems.
The film has received critical acclaim and was nominated for nine Academy Awards. It won two Oscars: Best Supporting Actor for Robin Williams and Best Original Screenplay for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
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